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A Life's Revenge 7 5 

43 Arrali rle Bnugh 7 5 

100 Aurora Floyd 7 3 

125 Auld Robin Gray 25j 13 3 

89 Beautv of Lyons 11 

113 B:ll Detrick! f> 

14 Brigands o! Calabria G 

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101 D.ira 5 

6) Driven to the Wall 10 

!52 Driven from Home 7 

173 East Lynne 7 

143 Kniigrani'6 Daughter 8 3 

170 Factory Girl 3 

102 Fielding Manor 9 tJ 

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52 Henrv Granden 11 8 

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191 Hidden Hand 10 C 

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9 Jjady Audlev's Secret 6 4 

40 Man and Wife 12 7 

163 Miriam's Crane L 2 

91 Michael Erie 8 3 

ne, MiUerof Dervvent W'lr... 5 2 

34 Mistletoe Bough 7 3 

81 Old rhil's Birthday 6 2 

85 Outcast's Wife 12 3 

83 Out on the World 5 

i;)0 Oath Bound 6 

29 I'ainter ol (ihent 5 

roacher's Doom 8 

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110 Reverses 12 68 

45 Itock Allen 5 3 

79 S|)v of Atlanta, 25c 14 3 

144 Thekla 7 

67 The False Friend 6 1 

97 The Fatal Blow 7 1 

119 The Forty-Niners 10 4 

93 The Gentleman in Black 9 4 
112 The New Magdalen ...., 8 3 

71 The Rewiird of Crime 5 3 

105 'ihrough Snow and Suu- 

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193 Toodles 6 2 



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Uncle Toms Cabin 15 7 

Will-o'-thc-Wisp 9 4 

Won at Last 7 3 

Zion 7 4 

TEMPERANCE PLAYS. 

73 Ai Last 7 1 

75 Adrift 6 4 

187 Aunt Dinah's Pledge 7 3 

185 Drunkards Warning 6 3 

18'J Drunkards Doom .....*... 15 5 
181 Fifteen vearsof u Drunk- 
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183 Fruits of the Wine Cup... 4 

104 Lost 6 2 

146 Our Awlul Aunt 4 4 

63 Out in the Streets 6 4 

51 Rescued 5 3 

59 Saved 2 3 

102 Turn of the Tide 7 4 

03 Three Glasses a Day 4 2 

62 Ten Nights in Bar-Room 7 3 

58 Wrecked 9 3 

COMEDIES. 

168 A Pleasure Trip 7 3 

136 A Legal Holiday 5 3 

124 An Afflicted Family 7 5 

178 Caste 5 3 

199 Hume 4 3 

174 Love's Labor Not Lost.... 3 3 
149 New Years in N. Y 7 6 

37 Not So Bad Af.er All 6 6 

126 Our Daughters 8 6 

114 Passions 8 4 

87 The Biter Bit 5 2 

TRAGEDIES. 

16 The Serf 6 3 

FARCES AND COMEDIETTAS. 

129 Aar-u-ag-oos 2 1 

132 Actor and Servant 2 

12 A Capital Match 3 2 

106 A Texan Mother-in-Law 4 2 

30 A Day Well Spent 7 5 

169 A Regular Fix 5 4 

80 Alarmingly Suspicious ... 4 3 

78 An Awful Criminal 3 3 

65 An Unwelcome Return... 3 1 

31 A Pet D. the Public 4 2 

21 A Romantic Attachment.. 3 3 
123 A Thrilling Item 3 1 

20 A Ticket of Leave 3 2 

175 Betsey Baker 2 2 

8 Better Half : 5 2 

86 Black vs White 4 2 

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THEOPIIILOUS JONES, M. D 

O'DONAVIN Mccarty Just Arrived 



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Scene—a parlor. 



PiiOP^i277^/S.— Table and two chairs, candle to burn at both enda, two 
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oj-xs^axxjo 

ACT I. 

SCENE I.— A parlor. Jones discovered seated k. of table rendiny 

newspaper. 

Jones, At last, my adveitisement has appeared. {reads) 

"Wanted — An office boy, one who can attend to the fires and 
keep the furniture in order, apply at once to Theopholus Jones, room 
28, No 10 Union Square, City. P. S. No Norweigans or Irish need 
apply." 

McCarthy, (outside) Bodad, this is twenty ate. 

{knocks loudly at C. v. 
Jones. Come in. 

McC. {pokinrj head in door) Well, I am in. 
Tones, {aside) Well, that's a queer looking creature. 

McCaktiiy rushes in lohistling Yankee Doodle and e.cits. 

Jones. Why, I believe that's a crazy man. 

Enter McCarthy, c. d. 

McC. Say my friend, do ye live here? 
Jones. Why certainly my good man. 
McC. Well, why don't ye move? 

Jones. Why the place suits me very well, I have no occasion to 
move. 
McC. Well, that's all right, ye don't have to. {exit c. d. 

Jones. That man must certainly be crazy. 



/f BIPPLES. 

Enter McCarty, c. r>. 

McC. One move question I have to ask — do you own the pkice? 

Jonefi. Certainly I do. 

McC. Well, wliy don't you sill it? 

Joni's. Bec.'iuse I don't wisli too. 

McC. Well, that's all ri^'lit, I didn't want to buy it. {exit c. D. 

Junes-. That fellow must have escaped from some home for the 
feeble minded. lie conies into my house, asks me why I don't sell, 
then rushes out again. 

Enter McCarthy, c. d. 

McC. Say my friend, be ye a pritty good man at kapeing secrets? 

Jones. AVell, yes 1 tlatter myself I am. 

McC. I wouldn't have ye breathe the knowledge that I am about 
to impart to ye's for my interest in the Brooklyn bridge. 

Jane . Well, you can rest assured that I won't mention it. 

McC. Ye won't even whisper it to your mother-in-law? 

Jones. No, no. 

McC. Ye won't tell nobody at all, at all. 

Jones. 2^0 I'll not tell any body, at all, at all. 

Mg C. Stop yer mocking me now, and listen for I am about to im- 
part a great secret to ye. 

Jones. Well, go ahead. 

M^cC. Hist, put ye'r ear up. {whispers loudly) If ye can't get in 
at the golden gate, get over tiie garden wall. {exile. t>. 

Jones. Gokien gate — garden wall, Avhy, the man is certainly 
crazy. I'll go and inform' the ollicers, {starts. 

Enter McCarthy, c. d. 

McC. Say my friend, did ye put an advertisement in the paper 
this morning for a boy ? 

Jones. Well, yes I inserted an advertisement in the Bugle for a 
boy. 

McC. {sittincj on table) AYell, I've cwm. 

Jones. Get ott" the table and sit on tiie chair. 

McC. Did ye think I'd stand up in it? 

Jones. But your not a boy, j^ou arc a man. 

McC. Well, I think I could do a boy's work. 

Jones. Do you think you could do the work around here? I 
haven't much to do. 

2lcC. Yis, I imagine I could — what have ye to do. 

Jones.' In the first place 

McC. Hold on, how many places have ye? 

Jones. No, no! I mean the first thing you do in the morning 

McC. Is to eat my breakfast I su]5|)Ose. 

Jones. No, the first thing you will do in the morning,is to come 
down here and sweep out the oIHce. 

McC. Sweep the office out doors? 

Jones. No, no! sweep the fioor. Tlien you may arrange the fur- 
niture. 

McC. Sure, if this is all ye have, it'll not take me long to do that. 

Jones. Then you may go down to my house— I live in the three 
story brick on this street. 



EIPPLES. ^ 

McC. Oh, yes, yes ! the one v^ith the mortgage on it. 
Jones. No, no I you mean the one with the porch on it. 
Mr a Yes it's all the same. „ . , , 

Jone's. Well, in my house there are about forty five windows, 1 
want them washed very nicely. 

YcG. Oh, I sec ye haven't much to do— go on. -^ • +i,„ 

Jones. When you get that done, you may assist my Wife in the 

^""mcS: (laughing) Yer sister's wife in the garden-Haw! haw! 

^^^Jokes. No, no ! assist-help my wife in the garden with the plant> 
and flowers. 

^fr^ Oh ves. ves! What else: 

Jone's. Then 1 have a farm it the country about two miles iroin 

^'^^MccT Yq have a farm— well, why don't ye sill it? 

Jones. Because I don't wish too. You go out to the faim— you 
can tell it very easily. 

.Ss. No^no! 1 mean you can tell it by the looks, it has a large 
red^gate in front. ^_^^^ ^^^^_^^^^^ j g,,p,3„g« it 1,,, „o fence around it. 

Jonps. Cei-tainly it has, only the gate is painted red. 

McC. Of rourse it's painted, how else could it be red unless it was 

''jl^tr^'ontlirfa^m there is about two hundred cords of wood- ^ 
I want it cut twice in two and piled up very nicely. 

McC. Oh, yes I see ye haven't much to do. What else . 

Jones. That is all. 

McO. No— that's all is it? 

'^IcG' Fakl'i and 1 didn't know but what you'd Avant to be Wre- 
in- meout to some of the neighbors when yer day's work was done. 

"/ones. No, tliat Is all there is to do. 

MrC Usldc) Two hundred cords of wood ; bedad an I ve struck 
a job for a life time. ( alond) Haven't you something email that 1 
could begin my days labor with? 

Jones. Yes you may run down to the post ottice. 

McCarty runs r. 1 e. 

Jones Hold on, do vou know where the post office is? 
¥cC.' Down where they kape the posts 1 suppose. 
Jones. No, the post office is where they keep the mail. 
McC. Do they keep any females down there too i 
•' Jones. Ko, no! mail— letters and papers. 
McC. How many shall I bring ye? 
Jones. What ever there may be m the box. 
McC. Shall [ brino' the box full? 
Jones. Yes, if the box is full, bring them. 

MrC All ria-ht, I lly— 1 Hy- ('^-^'^ ^- ^ ^' 

Jams (hnoihs) Well, that is certainly a very queer man, never- 
- the le'" ■ I ink he will make a good servant when I get 5|un brol-e 
in ; 1 think I will keep him a while an any rate and g.ve liini a uiai. ^ 



6 BIPFLES. 

McC. (.sings outside) I'm a dude, 

Yes, a dude ; 

You can tell by my shoes 
I'm in fashion. 

Enter McCarthy, r. 1 v.,ltoith one large letter and one small one. 

McC. Sure, and that post office is the funniest place I ever see. I 
says to the woman in the little window says I, give me some mail, 
she says who for and I had to tell her yer name before she'd give it 
to me. 

Jones. That was right. 

McC. That was right, Avas it; sure, and I thought she was making 
a game of me. I told her your name and she gave me this little bit 
of a letter, [gives Joxes the small one) Sure, she was given great 
big ones like this to the other fellers, and I says give me one of them 
too — she says go long wid ye or I'll have ye arrested, but I got even 
with her bedad. I watched me chance and when she turned her 
liaek to wait on another fellow, I reached in me hand through the 
window and I grabbed the biggest one I could find for ye and here it 
is. (gives big letter. 

Jones, {looks at it) But this letter is not for me, you have robbed 
the mail. 

McC. Devil a male I ever robbed in my life, or a female either. 

Jones. You have stolen this. Don't you know that you are liable 
to be sent to prison for life. 

McC. (crying) Sent to prison for life — what will become of my 
poor relations. Take it back docthur plase do. 

Jones. You staj'' here in my absence, and look after the office, but 
mind that you do not go near my jirivate laboratory there in the 
corner as I have a shell there with a patent explosive cap, and the 
least jar will explode it and blow us all to atoms. So be careful. 

{exit c. D. 

McC. {sitting doion) A shell with a patent explosion cap. Oh, 
the divil a bit he needn't be alarmed about me goin' near it — I don't 
think I'll take me clothes oft" to-night sure, I might get blowed up to 
heaven and I wouldn't want to be goin' there without any clothes on. 
I don't like workin' for these doctor cliafis at all at all. Sure I work- 
ed for one of them in Ireland, and he was trying all his pills on me 
before he gave them to his patients, and he had me abdominal all dis- ■ 
organized entirely. It was only a short time ago that I received a 
letter from my brother in New York, and he says tome " O'Donavin 
me boy if ye were only here ye could git eighty five cents a day, to 
carry bricks up to the fourth story and a man up there does all the 
work," and now when I come here, I found that me brother had gone 
farther out west to what the divil's the name of that town — sure I 
have it on the tip of my tongue and I can't spake it — 0-O-O'my-Ha- 
Ha, that's it O-my-Ha-Ha — it's out on the union certificate rail-way. 
[knock ontside) Oh, somebody's at the door I wonder if it's the 
master a comin' back, {goes to door R. 1 e.) What do ye want down 
there ye little bye? 

Voice, [outside) Here's the grey mare's physic. [gives bottle. 

McC. The grej'' mares physic is it, sure and where did you get it? 

Voice, [outside) Me master makes it, and I takes it. 

McC. Do ye take very much of it? 

Voice, {outside) Go long you Irishman. 



EIPPLES. 7 

McC. Go way or I'll set the dog on ye. {aside) How the clivil 
did he know I was Irish, The grey mare's physic is it. {smell boUle) 
Oil, the grey mare must be in a bad way to be taking such stull' as 
that, I'll just put it in the cupboard here, {goes to l. 3 u. e. ) Be- 
dad an if here ain't another bottle of grey mare's physic, (takes %ip 
another bottle and smells of it) Bejabers it smells like wine — {tastes 
it) — it tastes like wine — {driiiJcs) — bedad it is wine, {drinks) and 
miglity good wine at that, (drinks) Now, it's lucky for the doctor 
that I found his wine; sure and some fellow might have drinked it 
all up and he wouldn't have had any left, (drinks) I wonder what 
I'd better do with it. (drinks) I'll just put it over in this cupboard 
(puts 11. 1 E.) and if the doctor axes ine I'd tell him v.here it is. Oh, 
here's somebody comin'. 

Enter Jones, r. 1 e. 

Jones. Well, I lixed it all up about the letter and now if you v,-ill 
procure me a candle I will endeavor to peruse my letter. 
McC. Chop it up fine and throw it at me again. 
Jones. In other words, be so kind as to obtain me a ciuidlo. 
McC. Where will I find one ? 
Jones. Yonder in the closet. (poinisi.. 

McCarthy goes to closet and fetches out a candle. 

McC. There ye are. 

Jones. I want it lighted too. 

McCarthy lights both ends of the candle. 

Jones. What do you mean, you rascal you. 

McC. Sure, ye said ye Avanted a candle and wanted i'; ligiitoci too 
— ain't that one, two? 

Jones. Now blow one of them out. (they both hlov- •:andle out 
What do you mean, didn't you see me blow tins end out? 

McC. And didn't ye see me blow this end out? 

Jones. Now light one end, and see if you can hold it. 

McCarthy lights one end and grasps candle firmly with both hav,ds. 

Jones. What are you doing? 

McC. Trying to see if I can hold it. 

Jones. Hold it with one hand, there now, that will do. 

McC. (loalks atoay) I'm glad I've pleased you once. 

Jones. What do you mean by Avalking away? 

McC. Didn't you tell me that would do? 

Jones. I meant that would do to hold it w here you had it — now 
hold it once more while I read my letter. (McCarthy hotds candle 
Jones reads) "Dear brother, I write to inform you that my poor 
little Pouto is dead." 

McCarthy begins to cry very hard, 

Jones. Why, what's the matter? 

McC. Sure, I have abrother myself over in old Ireland and I don't 
kiK)w what day I'll be gettiu' a letter sayiu' that he's dead too. 



8 BIPPLES. 

Jones. Oh, it's not my brother that's dead, it's only his little pe* 
dof? Ponto. 

McG. (looking over his shoulder) Oh, only the little do^gy, yes, 
yes, I see the wiggle of his tail. (points to letter. 

Jones, (reads on) "I also would say that your mother-in-law is 
very sick." 

McCarthy holds candle under letter and sets it on fire. 

Jones. That is good news. Why, you scoundrel what do you 
mean? (drops letter on floor, McCatituy sits on it and puts it out) 
Don't you see that you have burned the most prominent part of my 
letter? 

McC. (holding seat of his pants) Sure, I burned the most prom- 
inent part of myself in saving your letter. (exit l. 1 e. 

Jones. I declare that stupid servant and that letter have unnerv- 
ed me so I think I will take a drink of that wine my brother was so 
kind to send me. (goes to cupboard l,. 1 e., takes bottle) My brothei 
always keeps a good article of wine, (poiirs out a glass and drinks it 
makes a terrible face and points to bottle) Irish ! Irish ! 

Enter McCarthy l. 1 e. 

. 3IcC. How the divil did he know I was Irish, (sees bottle) Be- 
dad the doctor's sorry for the way he's been treating me and he wants 
to make it up. (aUnul) I don't care if I do. (takes a big drink out 
of bottle) Wliere did you get that stuff. (makes face. 

Jones. Out of the cupboard yonder. (point i.. 

McC. Be the piper that played before Moses, but it's the grey 
mare's physic. 

Jones, (runs after him) The grey mare's physic? oh, you infernal 
Irishman, (throws McCarthy over his knee and spanks him to fast 
curtain. 



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Cluek Will Win 3 

Der Two Surp iics 1 1 

Deuce is iu lliui 5 

Did I Dream it 4 

42 Dotnestic Felicity 1 

188 Dutch Prize Fii^hter 3 

148 Eh? What Dhf You Say.. 3 

154 Fun ill a Post Office 4 

184 Fainilv Discipline 1 

Give Me My Wite 3 

Hans, the Dutch J. P 8 I 

Hash 4 

n. M. S. Plum 1 

How Sister Puxev got Her 

Child Baptized 2 

How She has Own Way... 1 

140 How He Pupped Quest'u.. 1 

74 How toTaine M-in-Law.. 4 

35 How Siout Y'r Getting ... 5 

47 In the Wrong Box 3 

95 In the Wrong Clothes 5 3 

11 John Smith 5 3 

99 Jumbo Jum 4 3 

82 Killing Time 1 i 

182 Kitties Wedding Cake 2 

127 Lick Skillet Wedding 2 

106 Lodgings for Two 3 

139 Matrimonial Bliss I 

09 Mother's Fool 6 

1 Mr. and Mrs. Priu^'le 7 

158 Mr. Hudson's Tiger Hunt 1 
23 Mv Heart's in Highl'ds .. 4 

32 My Wile's Relations 4 

186 My Day and Now-a-Days 1 

44 Obedience 1 2 

33 On the Sly • -i 2 

57 Paddy Miles' Boy 5 2 

165 Persecuted Dutchman 6 3 

195 Poor Pilicody 32 

159 Quiet Family 4 4 

171 Rough Diamond 6 3 

180 Ripples 2 

48 Schnaps 1 1 

138 Sewing Circle ot Period.. 5 

115 S. H. A. M. Pinafore 5 3 

55 Somebody's Nobody 3 2 

137 Taking the Census 1 1 

40 That Mysterious B'dle ... 2 

38 The Bewitched Closet 5 

131 The Cigarette 4 

i;)l The Coming Man 3 

167 Turn Him Out 3 

68 The Sham Professor 4 

54 The Two T. J's 4 



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28 Thirty-three DxtBrithd'y 4 2 

142 Tit for Tat 2 1 

151 Wanted a Husband 2 1 

5 When Women Weep 3 2 

56 Wooing Under Difficulties 4 3 

70 Which will he Marry 2 8 

135 Widower's Trials , 5 4 

147 Waking Him Up 1 2 

155 Why they Joined the Re- 
beccas 4 

111 Yankee Duelist 2 2 

157 Yankee Peddler 7 3 

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15 An Unhappy Pair 1 

172 Black Shoemaker 4 

98 Black Statue 3 

145 Cuff's Luck 2 

190 Crimps Tri[) 5 

27 Fetter Lane to Graveaeud.. 2 

163 Haunted House 2 

24 Handy Andy 2 

77 Joe's Visit 2 1 

88 Mischievous Nigger 4 

128 Musical Darkey 2 

90 No Cure, No Pay 3 

61 Not as Deaf as He Seems 2 

150 Old Pompey 1 

109 Oiher People's Children.. 3 

134 Pomp's Pranks 2 

177 Quarrelsome Servants 3 

96 Rooms to Let 2 1 

ll 07 School 5 

! 133 Seeing Bosting 3 

179 Sham Doctor 3 3 

94 16,000 Years Ago 3 

25 S])ort with a Sportsman... 2 

92 Stage Struck Darkey 2 1 

10 Stocks Up, Stocks Down.. 2 

64 That Boy Sam 

122 The Select School 

118 The Popcorn Man 

6 The Studio 

108 Those Awful Boys 

4 Twain's Dodging 

197 Tricks 

198 Uncle Jeff 

170 U. 8. Mail 

156 Wig-Maker and His Ser- 
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